Frederick bucher



F. BUCH ER.

Heating" Stove.

Patented May 31, -1859*.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

FREDERICK BCHER, OF COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,192, dated May 31, 1859*.

To all lwhom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK BUCHER, of Columbia, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coal- Stoves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, represents an elevation of the stove in perspective. Fig. 2, represents the portion of the stove above the fire boX, with its cover or top removed. Fig. 3, represents a vertical section through that portion of the stove shown in Fig. 2. Figs. 4, 5, 6 and 7, represent detached portions of the stove.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

c, represents a base and m, a fire boX of a stove which may be of any desirab-le form, and ornamented or plain.

0, is the door for supplying fuel to the fire boX. This part of the stove may be of cast iron, while the upper portions may loe of sheet iron. Through the top of the fire boX or cylinder, and over the fire, may be placed a pipe or tube CZ, having small holes made in it, its object being to furnish atmospheric air in jets to the escaping products of combustion, and thus cause them to burn. Over the lire boX or cylinder there is a cap a, in the center of which there is a dome c, and around its perimeter a series of pipes Gr, which lead up into a radiating 4chamber h, and in which chamber there is a second chamber or compartment as shown by Fig. 4, covered by a register or vdamper e. The object of this chamber and register is twofold, as will be hereafter explained. A second series of pipes G, leads from this lower chamber or radiator'lt, to an upper one of a similar kind, but instead of the dome c which does not make an open flue, these two chambers are connected by a pipe f, which leads from one of the inclosed chambers in one radiator to the other inclosed chamber in the other one, but in or over the second inclosed chamber, the register or damper e,

is on top of said chamber, while in the radiator below, the register is on the bottom of said inclosed chamber. Over the upper chamber may be a cover p, with an exit pipe z' in it, with a close or partially open damper to regulate the draft. The registers e are made to cover or expose a portion of the flue pipes Gr, namely that portion which lead from one inclosed chamber to the other. And when the openings in the registers e, are directly over the pipes Gr, then the draft from the fire boX m, to the exit pipe p, is direct. But when the registers e are turned so as to cover the pipes G, it not only cuts off and separates the inclosed chambers from a direct passage through the stove, but causes some of the pipes G, to become diving iues, and to carry the heat and gases back through the radiators where they may expend themselves, and thus their heating properties be saved.

lVhen both registers are closed, the heat and gases take the direction shown by the red arrows in Fig. 3, but when open as before stated then the draft is direct, but there is no radiation. By this arrangement I have great draft in starting the fire, and when it is burning, causing the whole upper part of the stove to become radiating surface by simply drawing the registers e to cut off the direct draft and cause the gases to return back through j', and thence by the other series of pipes to escape to the chimney.

Through the radiators 7L., there may be openings n, for the heated air to radiate from.

Having thus fully described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim therein as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- In combination with the fire cylinder, the double radiators It, each inclosing an interior chamber and register, so that the draft may be direct, or checked at pleasure in its passage through the stove, by which means I obtain much radiating surface, and econoinize much fuel, the whole being arranged substantially as herein represented.

FREDERICK BCHER.

Witnesses:

E. COHEN, THos. I-I. UPPERMAN. 

